Percentage Questions with Answers Worksheet
How to work it out (Find the 100%): Find the base — the number that is 100% (the whole, the old value, the cost price or the marked price). Choose the formula: part = p% of the base, or percent = part ÷ base × 100. Check the answer by working backwards.
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- 1.A tank had 500 litres of water. Now it has 230 litres. What is the percentage decrease?
- 2.A school bag costs ₹280 plus 5% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 3.The price of a cricket bat goes up from ₹500 to ₹935. What is the percentage increase?
- 4.A school bag costs ₹120. The price comes down by 15%. What is the new price, in rupees?
- 5.Meera keeps ₹1000 in a bank at 3% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Meera get in 4 years?
- 6.?% of 20 = 7
- 7.A team scored 80 runs in one match and 8 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 8.45 is 15% of ?
- 9.A test has 50 marks. To get 38%, how many marks does Kabir need?
- 10.A shopkeeper buys a water bottle for ₹120 and sells it at a profit of 50%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 11.6% of 200 =
- 12.26 is what percent of 40?
- 13.The price of a storybook goes up from ₹250 to ₹370. What is the percentage increase?
- 14.A farmer picks 500 mangoes and 6% of them are ripe. How many mangoes are ripe?
- 15.A price of ₹200 comes down by 40%, and then the new price comes down by 10%. What is the final price, in rupees?
- 16.The price of a toy car goes up from ₹300 to ₹465. What is the percentage increase?
- 17.A team scored 100 runs in one match and 69 runs in the next. What is the percentage decrease?
- 18.What is the percentage difference between 24 and 16?
- 19.One shop sells a kite for ₹84 and another sells it for ₹116. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 20.12% of a number is 33. What is the number?
- 21.50 is what percent of 200?
- 22.One shop sells a wall clock for ₹71 and another sells it for ₹29. What is the percentage difference between the two prices?
- 23.What percent of 250 is 25?
- 24.A wall clock costs ₹1550 plus 18% GST. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 25.Anaya scored 12 out of 20 in a maths test. What percentage did Anaya score?
- 26.What percent of 250 is 120?
- 27.₹1000 earns ₹90 simple interest in 1 year. What is the rate of interest per year, in percent?
- 28.A table fan is marked ₹800. In a sale it is sold for ₹568. What is the discount percentage?
- 29.A wall clock costs ₹150 plus 12% tax. What is the total price, in rupees?
- 30.The price of a lunch box comes down from ₹300 to ₹144. What is the percentage decrease?
- 31.₹500 earns ₹75 simple interest at 5% a year. For how many years was it kept?
- 32.A lunch box costs ₹1300 before GST. How many rupees of GST at 18% are added?
- 33.A torch is marked ₹800. In a sale it is sold for ₹440. What is the discount percentage?
- 34.A number changes from 20 to 31. Which is the right percentage change? (a) 55% decrease (b) 11% decrease (c) 11% increase (d) 55% increase
- 35.100 children are in a school and 8% of them come by bus. How many children come by bus?
- 36.Kabir keeps ₹2000 in a bank at 2% simple interest a year. How many rupees of interest does Kabir get in 2 years?
- 37.A shopkeeper buys a pencil box for ₹80 and sells it at a profit of 40%. What is the selling price, in rupees?
- 38.A shopkeeper buys a school bag for ₹80 and sells it at a profit of 50%. How many rupees of profit does the shopkeeper make?
- 39.A shop sold 40 ice creams on Monday and 35% more on Tuesday. How many ice creams did it sell on Tuesday?
- 40.What is the percentage difference between 35 and 45?
Answer key
- 54
- 294
- 87
- 102
- 120
- 35
- 90
- 300
- 19
- 180
- 12
- 65
- 48
- 30
- 108
- 55
- 31
- 40
- 32
- 275
- 25
- 84
- 10
- 1829
- 60
- 48
- 9
- 29
- 168
- 52
- 3
- 234
- 45
- 55% increase
- 8
- 80
- 112
- 40
- 54
- 25
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